Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Property Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Property
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Property The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Property
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Property The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Property
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Property The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Property
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Property I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Property
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Property In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Property
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Property The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Property
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Property May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Property
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Property Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Property
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Property "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Property
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Property "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Property
